Orthopedic review, built for clinical recall.
The Orthobullets Podcast is a clinical education show built around orthopedic topics from basic science, pathology, and reconstruction. It alternates between tight review-style teaching and CoinFlips case discussions where physicians work through surgical gray zones.
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The Orthobullets Podcast is orthopedic education in a direct study format. It treats audio as another way to move through Orthobullets topics, with episodes built around clinical and basic science subjects rather than narrative arcs. A typical review episode starts with a compact definition, then moves through presentation, workup, imaging, treatment, and questions. The pace is brisk. Rickets becomes a sequence of mineralization defects, calcium and phosphate patterns, inheritance patterns, deformity management, and medical versus surgical options. Paget's Disease is framed through abnormal bone remodeling, radiographic appearance, alkaline phosphatase, observation, bisphosphonates, calcitonin, and differential diagnosis. Articular cartilage turns into cartilage forms, matrix components, cytokines after intraarticular fracture, and the limits of healing through the tide mark. Molecular biology basics brings the same orthopedic-review energy to DNA, RNA, apoptosis, blotting, ligation, plasmids, PCR, and reverse transcription PCR. The show also has a CoinFlips mode. Those episodes are not just fact recitations; they put physicians around difficult reconstruction cases and let the uncertainty stay visible. A dysplastic hip in a young adult with cerebral palsy becomes a discussion about cup position, medialization, high hip center, augments, eccentric liners, and weight-bearing protection. A periprosthetic femur fracture nonunion leads into revision stems, plates, cables, strut grafts, infection concern, staged treatment, cultures, antibiotics, and negative pressure dressings. A failed hip arthroscopy case with acetabular retroversion centers on whether to combine or stage hip arthroscopy and PAO, and on how surgeons decide what they can do themselves versus when to bring in another operator. The tone is instructional and technical, with little padding. It suits someone who wants orthopedic material delivered as organized, high-density review and case reasoning rather than as bedside narrative or health news.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants dense orthopedic study material, especially around musculoskeletal conditions, basic science, pathology, reconstruction, and surgical decision-making. It fits clinicians and trainees who are comfortable with technical medical vocabulary.
What sets it apart: The show pairs topic-by-topic Orthobullets review with CoinFlips case conversations about gray-zone surgical decisions. That combination gives it both checklist-style recall and real operative reasoning.
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A focused technical debate on operative judgment in a complex dysplastic hip case.
The Orthobullets Podcast's CoinFlips and Controversies turns a young adult hip case into a focused discussion of surgical judgment, with Jesse Otero and an expert panel working through dysplastic hip reconstruction in a 20-year-old male with cerebral palsy.
Brain science before it becomes a headline.
Expert spine surgeons discuss a case of a 32-year-old male with right arm pain and weakness, exploring controversial treatment decisions.
This episode covers rickets, a metabolic bone disease caused by defective mineralization due to inadequate calcium and phosphate before physeal closure, including presentation, diagnosis, and treatment.
This episode covers the pathology, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment of Paget's disease, an idiopathic bone remodeling disorder.
This episode reviews the basic science of articular cartilage, including its forms, components, and zonal structure.
This episode covers the rare bone disorder melorheostosis, including its presentation, diagnosis with the classic dripping candle wax appearance on radiographs, and treatment options from observation to surgery.
OrthoBullets Podcast's CoinFlips | Recon episode centers on a 20-year-old man with cerebral palsy, left hip pain, and worsening ambulation despite stretching, baclofen optimization, and NSAIDs.
This episode covers molecular biology basics including nuclear structures, genetic terms, cell cycle, apoptosis, and research techniques.
A 67-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, recurrent falls, and a 2019 periprosthetic femur fracture presents with a painful nonunion after two ORIF procedures.
Expert orthopedic surgeons discuss a case of failed hip arthroscopy with mild acetabular retroversion in a 22-year-old female.
The OrthoBullets Podcast reviews tibial shaft fractures, the most common long-bone fractures, which account for 17% of lower-extremity fractures.
Expert orthopedic surgeons discuss the management of a proximal humerus fracture in a 74-year-old female with prior shoulder surgeries.
Expert orthopedic surgeons discuss the management of an open pilon fracture in a 56-year-old male hunter, exploring controversial treatment decisions.